Federal prosecutors indicted a major pharmaceutical distributor on April 23 on criminal charges linked to the opioid crisis. The charges are the first ever brought against a pharmaceutical distributor for drug trafficking.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan charged Rochester Drug Cooperative (RDC), the sixth-largest pharmaceutical distributor in the United States, with conspiring to distribute drugs and defrauding the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Prosecutors also charged two of the company’s former senior officials, Laurence Doud and William Pietruszewski.
